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No, Ankita is only ranked 212 in the official WTA rankings as on today.

Updating the men's list:

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Sashi Menon - 87
Yuki Bhambri - 88
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 132
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Sumit and Prajnesh are tied at 21st on the all-time list. RamK is 12th in the Open era ranking list.

Among India-born women, I think it's worth mentioning Laxmi Poruri, born in Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), who reached as high as 110 in the singles rankings and 85 in the doubles rankings. Of course, she famously won the Orange Bowl beating Monica Seles in the final, and played in the second round of the US Open at the age of 15.

Time for an update, at a time of enormous promise for Indian tennis:

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 116
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

India's current #1 and #2 are at new career highs now, and have moved up to #6 and #10 on the all-time India list. The India #3 male, Sumit Nagal, also remains at his career high.
Interestingly, the India #1 woman, Ankita Raina, is at a new career-high of 194 this week as well.

Prajnesh now 18th on the all-time singles ranking list for India, Ramkumar at #10, Yuki at #6.

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 115
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Prajnesh Gunneswaran -176
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Prajnesh moves up to 15th on the all-time India rankings list:

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 115
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 152
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Prajnesh moves up to 10th on the all-time India rankings list:

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 110
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 111
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Prajnesh goes one step up to 9th place in all time ranking list -

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 104
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 111
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Prajnesh becomes only the 9th Indian in the Open era to be ranked in the top-100 in ATP singles, and Mukund enters the list too.

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 97
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 111
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sanam Singh - 266
Sasi Kumar Mukund - 270
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Congrats to Prajnesh for making the top-10 list. Maybe we should add the year when they reached the highest rankings?

We had 9 top-150 players till 1988 when Zeeshan made the top-150, and 10 when LP got there in 1994. Then we went 19 years without anybody, till Somdev in 2013. Now we have had 5 players make the top-150 in the last 6 years. Nice to see that.

And we have guys coming through continuously - Sasi/Sumit, Manish, that 15 year old playing in Portugal.

Prajnesh is now 6th on the all-time India ranking list in the Open era (since rankings began in 1973):

Vijay Amritraj - 16
Ramesh Krishnan - 23
Somdev Devvarman - 62
Leander Paes- 73
Anand Amritraj - 74
Prajnesh Gunneswaran - 81
Yuki Bhambri - 83
Sashi Menon - 87
Jasjit Singh - 89
Premjit Lall - 105
Ramkumar Ramanathan - 111
Jaidip Mukherjea - 120
Zeeshan Ali - 126
Ramanathan Krishnan -136
Saketh Myneni -138
Prakash Amritraj - 154
Akshai Misra - 158
Srinivas Vasudevan – 166
Bhanu Nunna - 199
Ashok Amritraj - 201
Joykumar Royappa - 207
Sumit Nagal - 213
Rohan Bopanna - 213
Mahesh Bhupathi - 217
Chiradeep Mukherjea - 221
Harsh Mankad – 222
Vishnu Vardhan -262
Sasi Kumar Mukund - 264
Sanam Singh - 266
Karan Rastogi – 284
N. Sriram Balaji - 287
Jeevan Neduncheziyan - 293

Time for us to put a similar listing together for the women who have been ranked in the WTA top-300 (albeit still a rather short list):

Sania Mirza - 27
* Shikha Uberoi - 122
* Sunitha Rao -144
Nirupama Vaidyanathan - 147
Ankita Raina - 164
Kamran Kaur Thandi - 196
Pranjala Yadlapalli - 280
Isha Lakhani - 291

Manisha Malhotra and Ankita Bhambri narrowly failed to make it to the top-300. Shikha and Sunitha were not really products of the Indian system (and hence warrant their asterisks), but Shikha represented India throughout, and Sunitha reached her career-high when she was representing India.

PKBasu wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 4:08 pmTime for us to put a similar listing together for the women who have been ranked in the WTA top-300 (albeit still a rather short list):

It's sad how short this list is, though. We should be doing better than this. I certainly expected a couple more to be in the list by now, considering that it is about 15 years since the Sania phenomenon happened. Sadly, our kids were more bothered about who she was dating and marrying than what she was doing in tennis.

When PT Usha’s success has (arguably) not been matched to date, not replicating Sania’s success in a more expensive sport is hardly surprising.